Marblehead to hold interviews for new parks and rec super

MARBLEHEAD – Interviews are scheduled Friday for semi-finalists for the town’s next Recreation, Parks and Forestry Superintendent.R. Thomas "Tom" Hamond, who has held the post for 32 years, is scheduled to retire March 31 and members of the Recreation, Parks and Forestry Commission could be receiving finalist recommendations from the seven-member search committee as early as next week.Committee members have not named semi-finalists or stated how many interviews they plan to conduct. The committee advertised the vacancy in November with a December deadline. The ad listed "Salary commensurate with experience." Hamond earned $72,524 in 2007.Once the finalists are named the commission will interview them and make a selection.Committee members include Hamond, Town Administrator Tony Sasso, Recreation, Parks and Forestry Commission member Sam Ganglani, Finance Committee member Kathleen Leonardson, School Athletic Director Michael Plansky, Director of Public Health Wayne Attridge and Disabilities Commission member Mary Levine. The committee has conducted its business without electing a chairman.Commission member Derek Norcross supplied the group with a job description.At the committee’s first meeting, which was conducted in public, Attridge suggested submitting three finalists. "Usually you can narrow it down," he said. "More than that (three) and you complicate things for the board."